{"id":392939,"date":"2026-04-23T00:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/392939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:32:12","slug":"boj-to-skip-rate-hike-next-week-june-seen-as-next-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/392939\/","title":{"rendered":"BOJ to skip rate hike next week; June seen as next window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Inflation outlook is expected to be lifted to reflect Iran energy shock<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260421 Ueda\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Crude oil prices are expected to keep Gov. Kazuo Ueda&#8217;s Bank of Japan from raising interest rates on April 28. (File photo by Kazuho Fujiwara)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Bank of Japan is expected to leave its policy rate unchanged at 0.75% next week as it seeks more time to assess the economic impact of disruptions to Middle East oil supplies following <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/trading-asia\/iranflation-a-wild-card-for-boj-and-other-asian-central-banks\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"&#039;Iranflation&#039; a wild card for BOJ and other Asian central banks\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the conflict<\/a> between the U.S., Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Inflation outlook is expected to be lifted to reflect Iran energy shock Crude oil prices are expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30379,138,219,24826,13419,111,139,1536,69,19257,7812,65259,686,14451],"class_list":["post-392939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-hike","tag-june","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-rate","tag-seen","tag-skip","tag-week","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}